Fun fact: The epic of Gilgamesh has the earliest known version of the phrase hold my beer.Come on, you had to know it was only a matter of time before I went and ruined the oldest story we have.There is more than one translation of this story, so just think of this as mine.Gilgam-ish, we'll call it.Now, the one I listened to by Stephen Mitchell was really good. He said his goal was to make the story complete and accessible to modern-day readers, so one thing he did was take Sîn-lēqi-unninni's Ak...

هیچکس مرگ را نمی‌بیندهیچکس چهره‌ی مرگ را نمی‌بیندهیچکس صدای مرگ را نمی‌شنودمرگ وحشی فقط، انسان را بر زمین می‌کوبدگاهی خانه‌ای می‌سازیم، گاهی اشیانه‌ای برپا می‌کنیمسپس برادران آن را به ارث می‌برند و میان خود تقسیم می‌کنندگاهی خصومت بر زمین حاکم می‌شودسپس رودها طغیان می‌کنند و سیل جاری می‌شودسنجاقک‌ها دستخوش جریان آب رودخانه می‌شوندو چهره آنها به چهره خورشید ماننده استسپس ناگهان هیچ چیز وجود نداردخوابیدن و مرگ درست مانند یکدیگرند تصویر مرگ را نمیتوان کشید_________________________________دیشب خواب ...

I thought it would be a good idea to brush on my (non-existent) knowledge of epics. I cannot rate the Epic of Gilgamesh because I only listened to it as it was among the first piece of literature known to man and I was curios. Plus it was short. I am reading the Literature Book, an excellent history of the art of the written word and this was the first entry. The first category is called heroes and legends and covers titles from 3000 BCE to 1300 CE. I am planning to read some of the books mentio...

”The one who saw the abyss I will make the land know;Of him who knew all, let me tell the whole story...in the same way...Is there a king like him anywhere?Who like Gilgamesh can boast, ‘I am the king!’From the day of his birth Gilgamesh was called by name.” An exorcist priest named Sin-Leqi-Unninni is famous for being the scribe who recorded the best preserved version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He lived in Mesopotamia between 1300-11oo BC. His name translates roughly as The Moon God is One Wh...

“I will reveal to you a mystery, I will tell you a secret of the gods.” There is something very humbling about reading stories written more than 4,000 years ago. One of the most fascinating things about The Epic of Gilgamesh is how you can easily see the influence it has had on Homer and Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology. And I get chills just thinking about how this narrative reaches across the millennia and takes us inside the minds of people who lived so long ago.This is one of those case...

GilgameshEscrita originalmente en Summeria hace más de 3500 años sobre tablillas de barro, es la pieza de literatura más antigua que haya llegado hasta nuestros días, mucho más antigua que “La Ilíada” o “La Odisea”. En esta gran epopeya, el rey (y semi-dios) de Uruk, Gilgamesh, va en busca de la inmortalidad tras la muerte de su, primero rival, y posteriormente, inseparable compañero Enkidu. En la narración nos encontramos con relatos que, paradójicamente, se verán reflejados en la Biblia muchos...

"لأنه ليس من قدر الإنسان أن يحيا إلى الأبد ولكن لإنجازاته أن تخلد اسمه للأجيال اللاحقة""As for human beings, their days are numbered, and only their achievements that could establish their name to the latter generations." The oldest discovered "truly literature" epic ever in history, the immortal outstanding Odyssey of Iraq. Gilgamesh, the two-thirds god, symbol of Sumerian myth. Origin of all stories and tales, which the old ancient civilizations quoted Source of myths and superstitionYou woul...

گیلگمشگیلگمش در ابتدای حماسه، وقتی همچون کودکی خردسال از جهان و معماهای جهان فارغ است، مردی است تنومند، دو سومش خدا و یک سومش انسان، با نشاط و سرشار از سلامتی و زورمندی، با کمربندهای مرصع و دستبندهای طلا و سهمی ثابت از نخستین شب هر دختری که در شهرش «اوروک» ازدواج می‌کرد. پادشاهی که از فرط استغنا به عشق ایزدبانوی عشق، عشتار، با تحقیر و استخفاف پاسخ رد می‌دهد، و وقتی ایزدبانو از خشم هیولای آسمان را در شهر اوروک رها می‌کند، بی آن که تشویشی به دل راه دهد دو شاخ هیولا را می‌گیرد و او را می‌کشد. مردی ...

He Who Saw The Deep: A Hymn to Survival The Gilgamesh epic is one of the great masterpieces of world literature. One of the early translations so inspired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916 that he became almost intoxicated with pleasure and wonder, and repeated the story to all he met. 'Gilgamesh,' he declared, 'is stupendous!' For him the epic was first and foremost 'das Epos der Todesfurcht', the epic about the fear of death.This universal theme does indeed tie together the various strand...

5.0 stars. I thought this story was AMAZING. However, before I go any further I do want to point out that this review is solely for the version I read which was “Gilgamesh: A New English Version” by Stephen Mitchell. I say this because for a story written over 4000 years ago (approximately 2100 BC) about a King who lived over 4700 years ago (approximately 2750 BC) and was written in cuneiform in an extinct language (Akkadian), I imagine that the particular translation one reads may have a profou...